Should I upgrade from Visual C++ 5.0?

[bupkus]

I was thinking of learning a MSoft tool for a project coming up and while exploring the new stuff I found this CD for VC++ 5.0 Enterprise Edition.
Is this product obsolete or a useful tool to learn from?

 

[Spydermag68]

VC++ 5 is out of date. There has been so many improvments in VC++.Net just in the implementaion of the basic C++ that it is would be advisable to pick up a the latest and greatest version.

 

[zephyrprime]

Even if you don't use .net, at least use 6.0. There have been many changes as Spydermag68 mentioned. But if you're going be exerting yourself, might as well only spend time learning the most modern skills and go with .net.

 

[bupkus]

Thanks for the replies. I'll get the VS.

 

[Nothinman]

If you need VC get .NET, C++ support is greatly improved.

If you just need a decent C++ compiler see if gcc will do what you need, it's Free and takes nowhere near the 2G space that VS.NET does =)

 

[bupkus]

I don't need any particular tool.
I just want to select a tool that will take me the furthest into the future of programming.

 

[Nothinman]

I just want to select a tool that will take me the furthest into the future of programming.

Again, highly dependent on where you want to go in programming. I'm sure a some would argue that Java would be better than C++.

I'm a Linux user so I'm biased towards gcc, vi and gdb as a programming environment, I think VC is about 200x as big as it needs to be.